Craft – Page 37 – Visual Journalism

June 28, 2011

What Students Should Do with Their Summer Break

Michael P. King gives a list of tips over on the NPPA Visual Student blog about what photojournalism students should be doing this summer to improve their portfolio. I’d add a 13th: Make yourself uncomfortable. Self-assign yourself a project or single image that is so wildly beyond what you’re used to doing that it makes you sweat, that you can’t...

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June 25, 2011

Is Branding Bad?

Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post takes on the idea of building your brand as a journalist. It’s an interesting, idealistic, ingenious read … that I mostly disagree with, which makes me a little sick. I want so badly to go back to where I started, which is maybe a little different from where Weingarten started: When I was a...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

June 24, 2011

Heisler on Heisler: Memories From Before He Was Born

Over on the New York Times’ Lens blog, Todd Heisler writes about going through his father’s Kodachrome slides, many from before he was born. (Yes, this is a recurring theme in what I post here as I am fascinated by the photographic archive of our personal lives.)

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June 22, 2011

David Wells on Preparing to Travel

David Wells, whose work I’ve been looking at for years, has a post up on the Olympus web site on Travel Tips for the Busy Season. It’s well worth your time as he goes through how he prepares for a trip and how he handles his shooting time. Why do I like it? He’s as paranoid as I am. He...

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June 14, 2011

Scott Bourne on Seeing

Nice post on what differentiates us, the visual storytellers, from them, the non-visual people – it’s the way we see the invisible. Scott Bourne, who runs the PhotoFocus blog, ends with this exercise: Try to describe something (like a tree) as if you were describing it to a blind person who had never received the gift of sight. Then go...

Craft/Photojournalism

June 13, 2011

On Capturing Time

Gordon Lewis over at the Shutterfinger site has a nice essay up on capturing time. A short excerpt: I’d suggest that before you raise camera to eye you give some thought to the moment in time you’re trying to capture. What’s special about it? What are you trying to remember? What do you want others to see? If you can...

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June 7, 2011

Corbis Moves to Protect the Sygma Archive

Corbis, which purchased the Sygma archive in 1999, has established the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility to allow access to the millions of negatives, prints, slides and contact sheets from the collection. I sense a road trip … (Thanks to New Photographer editor Don Winslow for the story lede.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

May 23, 2011

How the AP Preps for Disaster Stories

Posted on Facebook of all places, the Associated Press has a short piece up on how they prepared for the tornado coverage over the last few days. Not too deep, but you get some idea as to what they go through. The last segment where Charlie Riedel talks about being on the ground, though, is pretty important. In all the...

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May 16, 2011

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning.

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May 15, 2011

Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs

Ralph Gardner has a piece up on the Wall Street Journal about his visit to the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s photogrpahic archive at the State University of New York Purchase in Westchester, N.Y. Why is this important? Well, they have one of the largest collections of Abraham Lincoln photographs as well as the collections of Gordon Parks and Ed Clark – two...